First post in many, many moons

And of course it is a silly piece of nothing. The Butchers linked to this post on Texas Best Grok, and I feel compelled to waste fifteen minutes on this silly sci-fi internet meme.

Here are the rules:

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club.

Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.

Here we go...

• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
• The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
• Dune, Frank Herbert*
• Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein -- HATED IT! SO MUCH!
  
• A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick*
• The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
• A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov*
• Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
• Cities in Flight, James Blish
• The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
• Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
• Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
• The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
• Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
• Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey*
• Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card*
• The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
• Gateway, Frederik Pohl
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*
• I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
• Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Little, Big, John Crowley
• Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny*
• The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
• More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
• The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
• On the Beach, Nevil Shute
• Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
• Ringworld, Larry Niven*
• Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
• The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
• The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
• Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein*
• Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
• The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
• Timescape, Gregory Benford
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer